Authors

Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Ph.D.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Ph.D., is Donald Bren Professor and director of the Center for Epigenetics and
Metabolism at the University of California, Irvine. Before his move to
California in 2006, he was director of research at the National Center for
Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France. Sassone-Corsi’s
major interest is concentrated on the mechanisms of signal transduction able to
modulate nuclear functions and, in particular gene expression, chromatin
remodeling, and epigenetic control. He has
received many awards, including the EMBO Gold Medal, the Charles-Leopold Mayer
Prize of the Academie des Sciences (France), and the Ipsen Award for
Endocrinology (USA). He received his Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Naples, Italy.

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